Australian Bronze Needle Damselfly

Strange? Yesterday a beautiful small Bronze Needle Damselfly landed on me for minute then flew off. Today possibly the same fly landed on me as I walked around the garden & it stayed there for several minutes. Then parked near the door & it's still there. #insects #Odonata #dragonfly #AusInsects

Cicada sitting on white painted bricks.

Cicada (Superfamily Cicadoidea - no idea what genus or species), St Lucia
#Brisbane #insects #wildlife #wildoz #nature #NaturePhotography #ausinsects #Photography #Australia

Bright red dragonfly with transparent wings perched on rock

Male Scarlet Percher Dragonfly (Diplacodes haematodes), Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, Toowong
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Brown butterfly with large orange spots within which are dark spots with which are bluish dots perched on a bush.

Meadow Argus (Junonia villida), Mooloolah River National Park, #SunshineCoast, #Queensland
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Large spider facing downwards in a web with a much smaller male at her eleven o'clock.

I Like Big Butts...
Small male and MUCH larger female Golden Orb Weaver (Trichonephila plumipes) aka Tiger Spider, Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, Brisbane
#insects #spider #spiders #MtCoottha #wildlife #nature #NaturePhotography #ausinsects #wildoz #Brisbane #Photography #Australia

Red tailed Fiery Skimmer dragonfly with brown body, big black eyes, and red "nose" hovers over running water with blurred wings.

Fiery Skimmer (Orthetrum villosovittatum) hovering at Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane
#insects #dragonfly #dragonflies #wildlife #nature #NaturePhotography #ausinsects #wildoz #Brisbane #Photography #Australia

Blue-banded Bee hovering partially hidden by purple flower

Native Blue-banded Bee (Amegilla cingulata) playing peekaboo at Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, Brisbane
#insects #bee #bees #wildlife #nature #NaturePhotography #ausinsects #wildoz #Brisbane #Photography #Australia

Black dragonfly with black and yellow striped rear inner quarter of wings perched towards end of a leaf.

Yellow-striped Flutterer Dragonfly (Rhyothemis phyllis), Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane
#insects #dragonfly #dragonflies #wildlife #nature #NaturePhotography #ausinsects #wildoz #Brisbane #Photography #Australia

Small blue-gray butterfly perches on thin yellow branch

Small Dusky Blue (Candalides erinus), Mooloolah River National Park, Sunshine Coast
#insects #butterfly #butterflies #wildlife #nature #NaturePhotography #ausinsects #wildoz #Brisbane #Photography #Australia

Giant grasshopper on a glass-topped table.

Giant Grasshopper (Valanga irregularis), Parrearra, Sunshine Coast
#insects #wildlife #nature #NaturePhotography #ausinsects #wildoz #Brisbane #Photography #Grasshopper #Australia

Black butterfly with rear half/outside of wings white and blue and red spotted tail of wings perched on a green fern.

Dingy Swallowtail (Papilio anactus), Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, Toowong, Brisbane
#butterfly #butterflies #insects #wildlife #nature #NaturePhotography #ausinsects #wildoz #Brisbane #Photography

Large yellow dragonfly perches horizontally on a diagonal dark-green reed stem against a dark green background

A female Black-headed Skimmer dragonfly (Crocothemis nigrifrons) poses at Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, Toowong
#insects #dragonfly #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #Australia #wildoz #AusInsects #Photography #Brisbane #WildlifePhotography

Large yellowish dragonfly clings vertically from a reed seed-head.

Female Blue Skimmer Dragonfly (Orthetrum caledonicum), Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens
#insects #dragonfly #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #Australia #wildoz #AusInsects #Photography #Brisbane

Rear three quarter view of a spectacularly black and yellow striped dragonfly with black outlined transparent wings perched on the very end of a narrow vertical reed stem.

Australian Tiger Dragonfly (Ictinogomphus australis), Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens, Brisbane
#insects #wildoz #ausinsects #dragonfly #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildPhotography #Photography #insect #ausinsect

Large dragonfly with a red abdomen and brown/black body and head on a large leaf.

Fiery Skimmer Dragonfly (Orthetrum villosovittatum), Brisbane
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Brown and black butterfly with white spots on perimeter of wings on a branch and angled so you can see it's abdomen.

Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) Non-native, but common here in Oz anyway. Kedron Wetlands, Brisbane
#butterfly #butterflies #insects #wildlife #nature #NaturePhotography #ausinsects #wildoz #Photography